Teachers College, Columbia University

Lobbying client

Teachers College is Columbia University's graduate school of education, psychology and health, founded in 1887 and affiliated with Columbia since 1898, enrolling about 5,300 students in programs that now reach well beyond classroom-teacher training. It has filed 20 lobbying disclosures since 2024, lobbying eight council members through CMW Strategies and the Parkside Group, on city budget funding and educating policymakers about inequities in the school-aid funding formula, and holds about $34.9 million in active city contracts as of August 2026.

Council members lobbied
8
Filings (since 2024)
20
Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
$270,000
Industry (per city contracts)
Professional Services
City contracts (active)
$34,901,332 · 6 contracts
Awarded all-time
$150,252,639 · 313 since 2008, incl. expired
Paid to date
$115,832,617
Won without a fresh bid
23% of contract value · $34,771,323 · 169 contracts
Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
$14,675,591 · 25 awards
Funding history
Funded 9 years (FY2016–FY2027), including each of the last 8
Top officer pay (FY2023)
$1,127,498 · Thomas Bailey, President & Trustee
Based in
NY

Lobbied these council members

Represented by lobbyist firms

Holds contracts at

Lobbied former members

Members who have since left their seat

What they lobbied on

subjects from their filings

City contracts

Registered city contracts, largest first by current contract value (not amount spent): running now, then registered to start later, then ended. Totals count every registered contract. Each line shows its Checkbook contract ID. The tag on each row is how it was awarded (“no-bid” = non-competitive).

Discretionary funding received

City Council discretionary (member-item) awards, largest first. Covers FY2009-FY2027.

Funded by these council members

City Council members who steered discretionary (member-item) money to this organization, largest first (FY2020 and later, where the sponsoring member is disclosed). Sitting members link to their page.

Officer & key-staff pay

Reportable compensation from this organization's IRS Form 990 (Part VII), latest available filing (FY2023). Includes pay from related organizations where reported; an annual figure, not a running total. Source: ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.

Officer pay over time

Total officer pay changed -6% from FY2020 to FY2023. Top-officer reportable compensation by year (org-paid only), with each year's share of total revenue. Source: ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer 990 filings.

Where their influence converges

Outside interests connected to this official through more than one independent channel — drawn straight from the records the rest of the site already shows. “Lobbied them” = a lobbying filing that named the member. “Outside spending” = an independent-expenditure committee the interest funds spent in

Federal awards

Federal awards made directly to this organization in fiscal years 2023 through 2026. Each amount is what the federal government has OBLIGATED on that award as recorded on USAspending.gov as of 2026-08-31 — money committed, not money paid out. These are prime awards only: federal money this

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